MUNDUBILE SHOULD NOT WASTE OUR TIME – 60% VS 38% IS NOT PETITION, IT’S A KNOCKOUT!
By Chadrin Nseemani
Let’s talk about the truth, no sugar coating. HH beat Mundubile 60% to 38%. That’s not an election you petition, that’s a knockout! 22% gap! More than 900,000 votes! You want to petition what? You want to tell the court that 900,000 Zambians were forced to vote? Come on!
The law is very clear. Article 103 says if you go to Concourt, you must prove that without the cheating, you would have won. So tell us, where will Mundubile find 900,000 votes to turn the result? In his house? In his bedroom? There is nowhere!
Even the EU observers, those people who love to criticize African elections did NOT say HH rigged. They just said some officers were slow to write. Slow writing is not rigging! A court cannot cancel HH’s 60% because someone was slow with a pen!
Look at the results. From the first day HH was leading. 105 constituencies HH 58%. 161 constituencies HH 62%. He was leading from start to finish. This was not a close game. This was Zambia saying YES to Bally and NO to confusion.
Mundubile my brother, don’t embarrass yourself. Don’t waste lawyers’ money. 38% is not 50% plus one.
You were beaten clean. Accept and go and prepare for 2031. If you go to court with this 22% gap, judges will laugh at you. Zambians have spoken, left, right and centre. Bally has raised the bar too high.
Ba Nseemani before dismissing Mr. Mundubile’s intentions to petition and his chances of success, see the evidence he has to offer. This is only possible if he is given room to facilitate his petition.
The very figures you are talking about are the figures he wants to challenge. So you can’t use them as a basis for your assertion that his petition is pointless.
The petition offers us the opportunity to establish the level of integrity of our election process and improve on it if need be.
More important is the fact that it will effectively lay to rest any doubts about the results.
In 2016, the Constitutional Court refused to hear Mr. Hichilema’s petition on what were clearly unjustifiable grounds. The hostile political atmosphere we are in is the direct result of that serious miscarriage of justice by the Constitutional Court.
It would be foolish for us to repeat the same mistake.
Let Mr. Mundubile’s petition be heard.